If you saw my previous post about Expression ( A Graphics Tool for the Graphically Challenged ) ... well, there is a new version of Expression (codenamed Acrylic) available now from http://www.microsoft.com/expression .
It's a very, very cool tool...

For those of you in Louisiana, in case you haven't heard (or haven't guessed), the events that I was planning on doing in New Orleans and Baton Rouge with Momentum (found here ) have been rescheduled due to Hurricane Katrina. Needless to say, it would...

We're still going strong -- though most of us are a little on the brain fried side. We're getting ready for our second push into production and a break for dinner (the project lead is absolutely insisting that we break ... which is probably a good thing...

It's now 3:00 AM on Monday morning. We've been here since around 9:30 AM yesterday morning. We just did another push to production on the web site. We had some challenges ... and, this time, we actually recorded it for posterity. However, at 3 AM in the...

Yet another busy day here at KatrinaSafe Central. We had a bug bash on the Smart Client this morning before deployment and are fixing the last couple of isses with one of the web services. We're also busy adding more functionality into the smart client...

We were here until 4 AM last night and I got back in at about 10 AM this morning. We've done triage on what we need to do for the SmartClient and we're getting stuff done. Everything is going well, if a bit hectic. I also just found out that we'll be...

We finally got the production roll for KatrinaSafe done at about 3:30 AM last night. Got in here to the Austin MTC as around 10 AM ... only to find that we missed some issues with the site. That'll happen when you've been coding into the wee hours of...

Have you seen Microsoft Expression (Code Name Acrylic) ? If you haven't, you should really check it out. Certainly, it's not as powerful as PhotoShop, but it's a LOT simpler to use. Right now, there is an early beta available from the site ... with a...

You've probably already seen this demo'd (I have), but I had the first opportunity to do this myself. And it is oh-so-cool.
Using VS Team Edition for Architects, create a new distributed app diagram. Simple enough.
Add a web service to it. Piece...

Finally, at long last ... I've gotten the postings for Houston DevCon. All of the PowerPoints are there with the exception of Michael Stuarts ... he has yet to send me his modified deck. However, for that presentation, I included the standard deck.
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